Petition for Favor Items

NOT ANOTHER FAVOR POST... I know, but hear me out.

from Demigod Forums

Alright, we all know the issues with Favor items. It has been a roller coaster ride since the game launched. But lets put all that whining aside for a second. I have a simple idea,

Make favor items accessable to everyone! No point values, you just get to choose what you want.

Let me list the reasons why...

1) This is an RTS/Short term RPG, not an long term RPG. What I mean by that is everything you gain or lose is in the course of a single game, nothing should carry over from game to game.

2) Achievements/goals/etc. are fun but extremely overdone in this day-and-age. EVERY game has them, but as long as they are just a side thing, as long as they don't effect game play.

3) This point really stems from the first 2 points. These favor items can be extremely powerful and give a huge advantage to a player. If I am Oak and I am playing Oak, is it fair that he gets his pick of the litter with 2,000,000,000 favor points and I'm sitting here with 140.

4) In the end, everyone is going to have these items unlocked. These bugs are just delaying that fact.

 

In conclusion, this game thrives at game balance. The game requires that everyone has the same fair advantage at the beginning. Favor items are awesome, they should be in the game because it just creates more options and different paths a player can take. Some may be better than others (which can be entirely based on opinion and play style) but leave that up to the player, not this buggy system.

 

So please sign this if you agree with me. I love this game and I just want it to work. So hopefully somebody up there will listen to us.

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Reply #1 from Demigod Forums Top

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silly they would spend all that time on balancing and then have something like this that destroys all of it.

 

   its a shame the game itself is good but its like whoever was in charge of releasing it is trying to sabatoge it.

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Reply #4 from Demigod Forums Top

They claim to have fixed them (favor points) in this patch (if they ever release it...Afternoon EST has come and gone...)

-Phal

 

Reply #5 from Demigod Forums Top

Quoting Phalnax811, reply 4
They claim to have fixed them (favor points) in this patch (if they ever release it...Afternoon EST has come and gone...)

-Phal

 
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They claimed that last patch. I'm not really calling them liars but...

"There's an old saying in Tennessee — I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee — that says, fool me once, shame on — shame on you. Fool me — you can't get fooled again."

 

I still think if we just did away with costs for these favor items it'd be better for everyone. And being that they have no cost, you could buff some up, make them better. Make them different options for different play styles.

Reply #6 from Demigod Forums Top

I still think if we just did away with costs for these favor items it'd be better for everyone. And being that they have no cost, you could buff some up, make them better. Make them different options for different play styles.
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The idea about buffing favour items in general is a good one, but removing the cost is not.  As long as all favour items are approximately equally good it doesn't matter if some are cheap and other expensive.  Unlocks encourage player retention, and for the sake of the long term success of this game it is good that they have them.

Making all favour items more powerful, and "equally" useful would certainly make differing builds more interesting.